Torbitza

Today, as a Ukrainian-Jewish and a scholar of the Holocaust, I feel deeply ashamed. I never could have imagined that in my country — the country where the Nazis murdered 1.5 million Jews, the country of Babyn Yar, the very symbol of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, a country that claims to be fighting for “freedom and democracy” — a Nazi collaborator and OUN leader like Andriy Melnyk would be buried with full state honors. Men under Melnyk’s leadership served in the Auxiliary police under Nazi. They hunted Jews hiding in attics, basements, forests, and barns, desperate to survive the Holocaust. They guarded ghettos and camps. They marched Jews to execution sites. And they took part in the shootings alongside the Germans. By the spring of 1943, the Holocaust in Ukraine was nearly complete. The Jewish neighbors were gone — murdered before the eyes, and often with the assistance, of Melnyk’s followers. And it was precisely then that Melnyk supported the creation of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, whose members swore an oath to Adolf Hitler. And today, the president of my country — a man whose own relatives were murdered by the Nazis — kneels before the coffin of this Nazi collaborator. One could hardly imagine a greater humiliation for Jews. It is a humiliation for everyone who once believed that “Never Again” meant something in contemporary Ukraine — a country where militant ethnic nationalism increasingly dictates the politics of memory, and national identity.

U Americi je sezona primarnih, unutarstračkih izbora koji generalno nisu zanimljivi javnosti kao generalni. Ali, ovi primarni izbori su veliki test za Trampov uticaj u Republikanskoj partiji i kako prolaze oni koji odbiju lojalnost predsedniku. Zato je zanimljiv Kentaki. 🧵

Danas sam na središnjoj komemoraciji u povodu 81. godišnjice proboja logoraša iz ustaškog koncentracijskog logora Jasenovac odao počast žrtvama i preživjelim zatočenicama i zatočenicima.

This is what caused Trump’s meltdown tonight.

5 dana do američkih izbora. Ozbiljno mislim da bi ponovni izbor Donalda Trampa imao nesagledive posledice po čovečanstvo. Šta vi mislite?